11-letter words containing l, a, d, i, e, s
- girdlestead — the waist
- glucosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that hydrolyses glucosides.
- glycosidase — (enzyme) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a glycoside.
- grandiosely — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
- halberdiers — Plural form of halberdier.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- handselling — The practice of promoting books by personal recommendation rather than by publisher-sponsored marketing.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- heat island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heat shield — a coating or structure that surrounds part of the nose cone or other vulnerable surfaces of a spacecraft and, by heat absorption or ablation, protects them from excessive heating during reentry.
- heat-island — an urban area having higher average temperature than its rural surroundings owing to the greater absorption, retention, and generation of heat by its buildings, pavements, and human activities.
- heracleides — ?390–?322 bc, Greek astronomer and philosopher: the first to state that the earth rotates on its axis
- highlanders — Plural form of highlander.
- hinderlands — the buttocks
- hinterlands — Plural form of hinterland.
- hollandaise — The hollandaise sauce.
- husbandlike — resembling a husband
- icosahedral — Of, relating to, or having the shape of an icosahedron.
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- ill-advised — acting or done without due consideration; imprudent: an ill-advised remark.
- ill-starred — doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky: an ill-starred enterprise.
- illegalised — to make illegal: They even wanted to illegalize smoking.
- illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- inadvisable — not advisable; inexpedient; unwise.
- inadvisedly — In a manner that is not advisable.
- incidentals — happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.
- increasedly — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- inosculated — Simple past tense and past participle of inosculate.
- inside lane — the inside, and therefore the shortest, route around a circular or oval multi-lane running track
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- interisland — being or operating between islands: interisland transportation.
- invalidates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of invalidate.
- invalidness — Invalidity.
- laddishness — (British) Laddish attitudes and behaviour; laddism.
- ladies' day — a special day set aside, either occasionally or regularly, on which women are encouraged to attend or participate in a certain activity at a reduced fee or at no cost: Friday was Ladies' Day at the ball park.
- ladies' man — a man who strives especially to please women and to attract their attention and admiration.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- landsteiner — Karl [kahrl;; German kahrl] /kɑrl;; German kɑrl/ (Show IPA), 1868–1943, Austrian pathologist in the U.S.: Nobel Prize 1930.
- languidness — The property of being languid.
- lanthanides — Plural form of lanthanide.
- lapidescent — in the process of changing into stone
- lateralised — Simple past tense and past participle of lateralise.
- launderings — Plural form of laundering.
- lead singer — main singer in a popular music group
- leader-ship — the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group: He managed to maintain his leadership of the party despite heavy opposition. Synonyms: administration, management, directorship, control, governorship, stewardship, hegemony.
- leaderships — Plural form of leadership.
- leased line — (communications, networking) A private telephone circuit permanently connecting two points, normally provided on a lease by a local PTT.
- led display — a flat-screen device in which an array of light-emitting diodes can be selectively activated to display numerical and alphabetical information, used esp in pocket calculators, digital timepieces, measuring instruments, and in some microcomputers
- legendaries — of, relating to, or of the nature of a legend.